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Friday, May 08, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 8th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 33

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Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

Today, 438 links Curated

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This Gene Tweak Turns Strawberries Into Healthier, Tastier Superfruit

#tRNA #anthocyanins #terpenoids #Cytokinins

Male Birth Control Breakthrough: Scientists Find Way To Turn Sperm Production Off and Back On

#meiosis #checkpoint #prophase 1 #chromosome

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains strange water never seen in our solar system

#heavy water #deuterium #ratio #radiation

A common constipation drug shows surprising power to protect kidneys

#lubiprostone #spermidine #gut bacteria #gut kidney axis

This Violent Volcanic Eruption May Have Revealed a Hidden “Emergency Brake” for Climate Change

#formaldehyde #chlorine #troposphere #saltwater

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Thursday, May 07, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 7th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 32

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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

Today, 436 links Curated

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Novel psychedelic compound 25C-NBF shows rapid antidepressant effects without addictive traits

#psychoplastogens #synaptic connections #Tryptamines #Phenethylamines

Why Did the Neanderthals Disappear? Scientists Reveal Humans Had a Hidden Advantage

#ecological modeling #interconnected #archaeological #ethnographic

Scientists reverse diabetes in mice with lab-grown insulin cells

#stem cells #type 1 #insulin-producing #culture

A Common Nutrient May Play a Surprising Role in Anxiety

#choline #1H-MRS #prefrontal cortex #acetylcholine

Scientists accidentally discover DNA that breaks the rules of life

#single-cell #sequencing #protist #eukaryotic

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Wednesday, May 06, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 6th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 31

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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Today, 433 links Curated

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This simple amino acid supplement greatly reduces Alzheimer’s damage

#arginine #amyloid #inflammation #Aβ proteins

A Single Dose of Psilocybin Induces Lasting Brain Changes, New Study Suggests

#therapeutic #depression #addiction #anxiety

Breakthrough biomaterial heals tissue from the inside out

#injectable #hydrogel #regenerative #extracellular matrix

New Research Reveals That Your Morning Coffee Activates an Ancient Longevity Switch

#caffeine #DNA #checkpoints #TORC1

Polymer 'bristles' could help repel proteins—and germs—from surfaces in medical settings

#surface coatings #selectively #polydimethylsiloxane #liquidlike

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Monday, May 04, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 4th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 30

Who Said this?

True terror is knowing that the country is run by your high school class

Today, 263 links Curated

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Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself

#fuzzy possibilities #collapse #gravity #uncertainty

How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions

#methanogens #hydrogen #carbon dioxide #ciliates

Homer’s Iliad Found Embedded in a 1,600-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy

#tomb #Roman-era #papyri #Funerary

Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities

#behavior #color centers #SiV #nanoscale sensors

Malaria didn’t just kill early humans, it shaped who we became

#Africa #Plasmodium falciparum #transmission #Disease

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Saturday, May 02, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 2nd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 29

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Today, 352 links Curated

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This new aluminum could replace rare metals and cut costs dramatically

#trimeric #Transition metals #rings #catalysis

New lithium-plasma engine passes key Mars propulsion test

#metal vapor #2,800°C #electric propulsion #2.6 years

Dolls beat screens for building children's social skills, study finds

#social #emotional #doll play #social understanding

Nanoreactor design improves catalysis by balancing molecular flow

#porous shell #optimize #kinetics #restriction

Yellowstone's volcano may be fueled in a very different way than we thought

#crust #magma plumbing #supereruption #tectonics

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Friday, May 01, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .May 1st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 28

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Truth is stranger than fiction but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't

Today, 413 links Curated

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This Common Plant Could Be an Unexpected New Source of Protein

#marigold #Calendula officinalis #glutamic #aspartic

Yawning Does Something Unexpected in Your Brain, MRI Scans Reveal

#cerebrospinal fluid #deep breath #Blood flow #pattern

Why drinking more water didn’t prevent kidney stones

#behavioral #fluid intake #adherence #hydration

Dinosaurs may have originated 10 million years earlier than fossils show

#clade #phylogeny #morphological #FBD

Popular Vitamin D Supplement Has “Previously Unknown” Negative Effect, Study Finds

#D2 #D3 #Interactions #immune

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 30th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 27

Who Said this?

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Today, 473 links Curated

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Scientists just found a chilling way life may have begun

#freezing #thawing #lipid #membrane

Mount Etna is like no other volcano on Earth, representing 'a new type of volcanism,'

#African Plate #silica-rich #alkali #low-velocity

Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say

#subduction #Juan de Fuca #earthquake #Cascadia

a 100-million-year-old bacterial toxin could reshape pest control and antibiotic discovery

#Streptomyces #SAIPs #pathogens #Adaptation

Replacing nitrogen with organic fertilizer found to improve soil and crops

#organic #inorganic #balance #nutrient cycling

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Wednesday, April 29, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 29th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 26

Who Said this?

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent.

Today, 450 links Curated

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Solar Foam Keeps Fresh Water Flowing After Sunset

#desalination #SDIE #hypersaline #evaporator

Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee

#extraction yield #triboelectricity #potentiostat #flavor profile

Common Food Compound Shows Surprising Power Against Superbugs

#cinnamic acid #antibiotic-resistant #conjugation #plasmids

Natural Compound Shows Powerful Potential Against Rheumatoid Arthritis

#Phellodendri cortex #obakulactone #ACOT1 #macrophages

Radioactive imaging reveals ants' secret food networks

#positron imaging #food sharing #roles #colony

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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 28th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 25

Who Said this?

I don’t want to believe... I need to know.

Today, 399 links Curated

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Scientists may have found the brain’s switch for chronic pain

#CGIC #signals #chemogenetic #allodynia

Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate

#heat engine #1.5 Degrees #climate regime shifts #2 standard deviations

Forget Chemicals. This Plant Removes Microplastics From Water

#moringa #saline extract #coagulate #treatment

Scientists Discover Why Cats Suddenly Stop Eating Their Food

#bored #satiety #VOCs #olfactory

Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings

#mechanisms #manifesting #angular gyrus #cortisol

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Monday, April 27, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 27th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 24

Who Said this?

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Today, 360 links Curated

Today's Five Links

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds More Evidence of Ancient Lakes on Mars

#ChemCam #lake #plasma #phyllosilicate-rich

Scientists Discover a New Meteor Shower From a Mysterious Crumbling Asteroid

#meteor cluster #all-sky #fragile #evolution

Orangutan uses Indonesia canopy bridge in 'world first'

#canopy bridges #Sumatra #infrastructure #fragmentation

The Splintering of the American Diet

#tribalism #algorithms #influencers #insight

China Identifies Two New Lunar Minerals from Chang'e 5 Samples

#magnesiochangesite-(Y) #changesite-(Ce) #merrillite #composition

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 26th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 23

Who Said this?

Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Today, 227 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Gravitational waves may have created dark matter in the early universe

#Big Bang #ripples #stochastic #Particle Formation

This exotic particle could finally explain why matter has mass

#particle systems #mesons #mesic nuclei #WASA

Scientists Say a Hidden Structure May Exist Inside Earth’s Core

#layer #seismogram #anisotropy #axis

Graphene kills harmful bacteria “superbugs” but spares human cells

#superbugs #Graphene Oxide #Antibacterial #membranes

Nanogenerator harvests electricity from evaporating seawater

#evaporation-driven #hydrovoltaic #nanopillars #interfacial

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Saturday, April 25, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 25th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 22

Who Said this?

In our obscurity... in all this vastness... there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Today, 338 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists just found where airborne microplastics really come from

#land #ocean #model #mass

Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

#superkilonova #neutron stars #AT2025ulz #LIGO

Simplifying clean hydrogen production with a new all-in-one photocatalytic cocatalyst

#sunlight #water #Co-HHTP #SrTiO₃:Al

Gut Bacteria Could Be a Hidden Trigger For Neurodegenerative Diseases

#Bacterial sugars #glycogen #C9ORF72 #Parabacteroides merdae

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Is Now Available for Download

#7.0 kernel #Gnome 50 #APT 3.2 #Mesa 26.0

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Friday, April 24, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 24th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 21

Who Said this?

United we bargain, divided we beg.

Today, 440 links Curated

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A new study explores the boundary between everyday caffeine and panic

#panic disorder #anxiety #avoidance #Interoception

New bioreactor turns stem cells into an immune-cell factory

#macrophages #pluripotent #somatic #immunology

Scientists Overcome Major Quantum Bottleneck, Potentially Transforming Teleportation and Computing

#quantum states #W state #tomography #symmetry

Lunar Dust Transformed Into Structural Reinforcement for Moon Base Construction

#fiber-reinforced #composites #repel #embedding

Strange Water on 3I/ATLAS Hints at the Alien Conditions of Its Birth in a Frigid, Low-Radiation Region

#cold #radiation #deuterium #hydrogen

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 23rd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 20

Who Said this?

Though I am an old man, I am forever a young gardener.

Today, 487 links Curated

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Gene therapy improves hearing in 90% of patients with inherited deafness in largest trial of its kind

#OTOF #congenital #otoferlin #hair cells

NASA eyes September for Roman Telescope launch

#infrared #dark energy #dark matter #exoplanets

This volcano that 'slept' for 100,000 years was never truly quiet

#Methana #superhydrous #zircon #water-saturated

For the first time, scientists pinpoint the brain cells behind depression

#excitatory neurons #microglia #genetic patterns #inflammation

Honeybees pass their math test, upending an animal intelligence debate

#cognitive #sensory #human-centric #behavior

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 22nd, 2026

Vol VI Issue 19

Who Said this?

Be curious, not judgmental

Today, 442 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Scientists discover skincare compound that kills drug-resistant bacteria

#madecassic acid #Centella asiatica #antibiotic-resistant #cytochrome

A bizarre new state of matter may be hiding inside Uranus and Neptune

#superionic #carbon hydride #Hot Ice #energy flows

Scientists Discover Caffeine Can Repair Key Memory Circuits After Sleep Loss

#sleep deprivation #Social memory #CA2 #adenosine

Scientists Revive Failing Cells With Mitochondria Transplants

#tethers #proteins #binders #genome

Plants can sense the sound of rain, new study finds

#seeds #dormant #germinate #statoliths

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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 21st, 2026

Vol VI Issue 18

Who Said this?

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Today, 470 links Curated

Today's Five Links

This common plant could clean microplastics from your drinking water

#Moringa oleifera #aluminum sulfate #coagulate #filtration

Large Hadron Collider Experiments Hint at ‘Undiscovered Physics’ That Could Soon Overturn the Standard Model

#framework #gravity #dark matter #B mesons

Could Humans Regrow Limbs? New Study Reveals Promising Genetic Pathway

#regeneration #SP genes #CRISPR #FGF8

Tinnitus May Be Linked to a Crucial Brain Chemical

#serotonin #severity #auditory system #SSRIs

Atomic Clocks Could Reveal The Hidden Quantum Nature of Time Itself

#optical clocks #superposition #ion-clocks #proper time

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Monday, April 20, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 20th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 17

Who Said this?

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Today, 257 links Curated

Today's Five Links

The Elements That Built Us: Rewriting How Dying Stars Seeded the Cosmos

#X-ray light #elements #supernovae #Metallicity

After 200 years scientists finally crack the “dolomite problem”

#growth #stalls #calcium #magnesium

Water simulation of famous quantum effect reveals unexpected wave patterns

#fluid analog #topological #AB effect #phase

Scientists Restore Memory In Aging Mice Using a Simple Nasal Spray

#neuroinflammaging #extracellular vesicles #microglia #hippocampus

A cheaper way to fight 'forever chemicals': How pH-controlled traps could clean drinking water

#sugar molecules #PFAS #linear #alkaline

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Sunday, April 19, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 19th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 16

Who Said this?

A litigious milieu is the enemy of personal autonomy and freedom.

Today, 299 links Curated

Today's Five Links

Artificial neurons successfully communicate with living brain cells

#Printed #interact #decomposition #MoS2

What caffeine does to ants could change pest control

#baits #focused #Linepithema humile #spatial memory

DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring

#Dark Energy #high-resolution #3D #cosmology

Scientists develop dirt-powered fuel cell that could replace batteries

#microbes #sensors #agriculture #environment

Hollow-sphere catalyst enables greener production of 99% pure propane at room temperature

#propene #dehydrogenation #SnO2 #membrane–electrode

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Saturday, April 18, 2026

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 18th, 2026

Vol VI Issue 15

Who Said this?

In 100 years of teaching we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching Remedial English in College